Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed.

The most simplistic reasons for gentrification may be that post-baby boomer professionals and/or their empty nester parents, having realized the business potential, beauty, and convenience of centralized locales in city centers, re-awaken to the reason they were built in the first place.

Gentrification, as an aspect of gender studies discourse, has not been studied extensively, but researchers have discovered that women and gay men have had at least some impact on the gentrifying process in older, inner-city neighbourhoods.

Gentrification occurs when there is a substantial replace ment of a neighborhood'sresidents with newcomers who are of higher income and who, having acquired homes cheaply, renovate them and upgrade the neighborhood (Holcomb and Beauregard, 1981).

The term gentrification is commonly used to refer to changes in the composition of the neighborhood population, resulting in new social organizational patterns (Palen and London, 1984).

Gentrification often brings about a number of positive effects, including cultural revival in the inner city, the protection and preservation of historical properties, and the enhancement of the quality of life of residents, as well as a rise in property, income, and sales tax revenues for local governments.

The new jobs created by gentrification are often accessible only to educated individuals, and sometimes only to individuals with a cultural background that meshes with that of the gentrifiers.

The widespread press coverage of the new wave of displacement studies is part of a broader effort to rescue the word “gentrification.” In the 1970s and 1980s, “gentrification” became familiar because it seemed to summarize all of the market failures, polarization and injustice that shaped life in America’s inner-city communities.

One interpretation is that the improved public services and other neighborhood conditions brought by gentrification offer incentives for poor renters to find ways to remain in their homes  even in the face of higher rent burdens and other stresses.

Many of these neighborhoods experienced some gentrification in the 1970s and 1980s, but respondents explained that the reinvestment that occurred towards the end of the 1990s and continues today is of a scale and pace that is unmatched historically.

Gentrification just means they can't keep them concentrated in an area where they serve as useful pawns in electing extreme leftists to political office.

Gentrification means the "worthy poor" get exposed to people who have managed to pull themselves up by their own efforts, and to such "dangerous" ideas as self-reliance, independence, and hard work as a virtue.

Posted by: Desert Cat at May 15, 2006 07:06 AM Gentrification means that the people who don't take care of their neighborhoods, who don't amount to much of anything in life, get the boot.

Further, while urbangentrification typically involves issues of both race and class ; two issues that are often conflated  in rural areas, gentrification is primarily an issue of class.

The central difference between rural and urbangentrification is that rural residents seem not to be displaced in the same way that urbanneighborhoodresidents are, though there is a need for more analysis of these issues.

Consequently, residents who are pressured by gentrification and the dynamics that typically occur (e.g., rising housing costs) would be forced to leave the county to escape these pressures.

Gentrification, she says, can be--perhaps must be--a component of unslumming; it must not be the end result of unslumming.

But unlike many leftist critics of gentrification who have cited her work, Jacobs also argues that successful city neighborhoods, including those in the process of "unslumming," also need to be able to attract "people with choice" from outside the neighborhood (while also retaining some of its own upwardly mobile residents).

Gentrification probably upsets those who have to move out, but those who stay - and if the data is right those who stay are quite a large proportion - get to enjoy the benefits: fresh opportunities for interactions in the street (one of Jacobs' pet ideas), for instance.

This map is useful nonetheless if we are to explore amenity clusters and their relationship to gentrification; this may be taken as simply a 'sample' of amenity clusters in Vancouver, where we would hope that the results could represent the entire city, however given the non-random nature of the data set, that cannot be said.

Yaletown is not surprisingly booming as gentrification began there in the early 80s and trendy lofts continue to be built in old factories.

According to this map, gentrification seems to be occurring in the Grandview area, central Kitsilano, pockets of the Westside, Yaletown, Oak and 25th, S. Fraserview, Wall Street (early gentrification), and UBC.

Such gentrification had in fact been fought building by building in Chelsea from 1970 onward by the Chelsea Coalition on Housing (CCOH), which followed the traditional strategies of urging and helping tenants to "hang in there" and getting back at harassing landlords with negative publicity.

Gentrification is a much more imminent threat on the Lower East Side, which has housed several generations of the city's poorest, most recent immigrants, but is now, since it abuts the newly chic East Village, attracting speculators and undergoing rising rents and real estate prices.

Such victories are rare before the forces of gentrification, and this one did little to slow their progress on the Lower East Side.

When considering gentrification as a racial or class issue, some important points to discuss are issues such as.

The word Gentry means landowners, and the process whereby a neighborhood's population's moves from the Tenantry or the renters, to the Gentry, or the landowners, is gentrification.

After an entire generation of Americans had been born and raised in what critics considered to be a faceless post war 'suburbia' there became a significant portion of the home buyer market that no longer simply regarded price and location of a home as the only factor in their decision to buy.

Gentrification, a phenomenon normally associated with coastal cities such as New York and San Francisco, is now heading inland, transforming inner-cityneighborhoods from Milwaukee to Raleigh-Durham to Albuquerque.

Everyone knows that gentrification supposedly starts with artists: Theyre the urban pioneers who discover rough but charming neighborhoods, fix them up and unintentionally make them safe for developers such as Davis and the yuppies who buy his product.

The one thing he seems sure of is the misguided nature of typical government responses to the gentrification issue.

Gentrification, a process of spatial de-concentration, destroys inner city communities (often of color) through various methods.

Still more, gentrification does not end with displacement; it continues with the confiscation and subsequent obliteration of a community’s legacy.

Gentrification, as an ever present backdrop, reminds community organizers of the impact of neoliberal globalization domestically, as well as heightens the sense of community necessary to combat it– most pertinently through resistance built upon participation, cultural affirmation and parallel institution building.

Gentrification has emerged as the most controversial type of neighborhood change in America today.

Much of this controversy stems from the fact that while gentrification can bring benefits in the form of an enhanced tax base and improving amenities and services, gentrification is also perceived as changing the character of poor neighborhoods through the wholesale displacement of the original poor residents.

While gentrification is associated with displacement in some gentrifying neighborhoods, succession, whereby residents who move as part of the normal turnover that all neighborhoods experience are replaced by more affluent residents, appears to a more important explanation of how gentrifying neighborhoods change.

What gentrification means and whether it's a curse, a blessing, or a mixed blessing depends on who's talking about it.

In the simplest definition, gentrification is what usually happens when large numbers of people move into an area where many, if not most, of the old residents have substantially less income and fewer economic resources than the new residents.

One of the anarchists, James Nasti, said "Gentrification is a touchy thing because regardless of what we, a mostly white radical community, regardless of what we're doing, all that is needed to start the ball rolling [for gentrification] is our white skin.